[arrtz]

SEEKING FREELANCER

Worldwide, REMOTE, near-total flexibility on hours. $70-100/hr. Expert Interviewer at Karat (https://karat.io)

Work from anywhere in the world that has a solid internet connection. Work as much or as little as you want. Work any day, any time of day, any number of hours -- you can do 0 one week, 50 the next week, and back to 0 the next week. Only requirement there is that we want you to roughly average at least 10 hours a week, or else the training/time investment doesn't make as much sense from your end or ours.

I know the above might sound a little strange, so a bit about the company for context: Karat is a Seattle-based startup that does software engineering interviews on behalf of other companies -- primarily first-round phone screens. Quickly-growing companies can spend a significant fraction of their engineers' time interviewing; we help take the load off. We've done a lot to make the interview experience better for all stakeholders that I could write whole essays about, but suffice it to say that candidates love working with us, clients love working with us, and we're well-funded and growing quickly as a result.

Because of this quickly-growing demand, we're looking to hire more Expert Interviewers. The ideal candidate is a software engineer with strong written and verbal English skills with at least a few years of professional experience. Interviewing experience would be great, but we spend 25 hours (paid) training you before you even start, so if you're strong technically and love working with people we can usually make it work :) Interviews are conducted over video chat, using a collaborative code editor.

Some of our interviewers are freelancers who use our scheduling model to backfill hours; others are full timers at top tech companies looking to make some extra cash; others have quit their jobs to work with us full time; some are digital nomads; one of our interviewers is road tripping around North America for a year and a half, doing anywhere from zero to 40 interviews each week depending on where he is and what the weather's like.

The application form is here: https://jobs.lever.co/karat/d44ab283-c7c0-4bbd-b8c3-4dc0ced6...

I know it's a pretty unique job, so if you have any questions reply here or email me at [e-mail] and I'm happy to talk through any of it.

[glacier77]

Sounds like an interesting job

The interviewers on your books who have 5 days a week available for this.

Roughly how much time of that can you fill, and is that likely the same for new interviewers as well?

[arrtz]

So the number fluctuates and it depends on how much availability you have and when, but for example we tell people that 15 interviews of availability will generally translate to about 10 interviews. This varies by season, as we add new clients, etc. So in the fall generally just about every hour you make available we can book, but in the summer when everyone's on vacation it'll be lower.

We also do deals with our more engaged interviewers to either employ them full time, or give additional contract work to help fill in the hours when they have more desire to work than interviews available. For example we have interviewers involved in mentoring, reviewing other interviews, creating new questions/formats, engineering work, etc.

[arrtz]

Hey, thanks for the question! We have a good amount of volume that we actually keep just for newer interviewers, like interviews for internal software engineering roles, and many of our interviews-of-prospective-interviewers. I just asked the folks who run our interviewer team for more detailed info, though, and will update here when they get back to me (probably Monday morning).